Coaching change takes place a day after 2024 SB season ends:
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HANCEVILLE: A day after the Wallace State 2024 softball season ended, President Vickie Karolewics announced the school has hired Megan Curry to be the next coach of the program.
Curry comes to Wallace State after 1 season at Birmingham Southern College.
BSC shut down its athletic program recently and will close its school permanently on May 31. Financial issues is the reason the school that has been in existence for a long time, had to make a very difficult decision.
But for Curry, it's a good situation.
Curry inherits the best program in the Alabama Community College Conference. Wallace State went 1 & 2 in the NJCAA nationals in Oxford this week.
The Lady Lions were operated by Lauren Stewart in an interim position. Stewart took over the team on February 4 when Carson Owens resigned via social media.
Stewart was an assistant with Owens in 2023 as Wallace State went 52 & 7. The season just ended with the Lady Lions winning 36 of 50 games, a winning percentage of ,720. Wallace was 19 & 5 against Division I foes in the ACCC and carried an 11 game winning streak into the nationals, their 4th consecutive appearance.
Curry directed BSC to 24 wins in the recent season in 41 games. She was named Southern Athletic Association (SAA) coach of the year.
Her Lady Panthers went 13 & 5 in conference play.
“I am very excited to be at Wallace State. It’s a blessing to be a part of such a winning culture and great success rate. I just want to continue that,” Curry said.
Her coaching philosophy is person first, player second.
“We’re just trying to grow young women and prepare them for what’s next,” she said. “If we can do both of those things a lot of greatness will come.”
Before her stint at Birmingham-Southern, Curry served as head coach at Asbury University and as assistant softball coach at Mercer University and her alma mater, Samford University, where in 2023 she was inducted into the Samford Sports Hall of Fame.
As a player at Samford, she was on the 2016 NCAA Division I Southern Conference Softball Championship team. She was named the 2016 Southern Conference Softball Player of the Year and to the 2016 NFCA All-Regional South Softball Team (First Team). In three consecutive years from 2014-2016 she was named to the Southern Conference, All-Conference Team (First Team). Curry broke the Samford softball single-season records for hits, batting average, at-bats, doubles, and stolen bases. In her career, she broke records for hits, at-bats, and triples.
She graduated from Samford in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in sports administration and from Asbury University in 2024 with a master’s degree in business administration, specializing in sports management. A native of Louisville, Ky., and raised in Paducah, she moved to Fairhope in 2006, graduating from Fairhope High School in 2012. Her husband, Parker Curry, formerly played in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and is now on the UAB baseball staff. They have one daughter.
Photo of Megan Curry and her daughter.
Photo courtesy of Twitter.
